Re: LilyPond in an Opera magazine

2009-01-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/1/16 Francisco Vila : > May the opera be a great success! Hehe, thank you :-) Actually, I have turned this opera into a piece of advertisment for LilyPond (I have demanded in my contract that they put a LilyPond logo on all posters and flyers). I have also mentioned LilyPond in other yet to

Re: LilyPond in an Opera magazine

2009-01-16 Thread Valentin Villenave
2009/1/16 Francisco Vila : > May the opera be a great success! Hehe, thank you :-) Actually, I have turned this opera into a piece of advertisment for LilyPond (I have demanded in my contract that they put a LilyPond logo on all posters and flyers). I have also mentioned LilyPond in other yet to

Re: LilyPond in an Opera magazine

2009-01-16 Thread Jonathan Kulp
Francisco Vila wrote: Hi all, Valentin Villenave, one of our LilyPond gurus has been briefly interviewed on a good quality Spanish magazine, Opera Actual[1]; I enclose an English translation in the attached zip. Feel free to improve the English wording or spelling of my translation draft. I still

Re: LilyPond in an Opera magazine

2009-01-16 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/1/16 Jonathan Kulp : > Thanks for sending this, Francisco! Congratulations, Valentin! I found > only a couple of things to fix in the English translation. Patch attached. > > Jon Thank you, latest version will always be at http://www.paconet.org/opera-actual-v-villenave.zip -- Francisco V

Re: splitting chords entered as <>^"with stuff" \etc

2009-01-16 Thread David Raleigh Arnold
On Thursday 15 January 2009, you wrote: > David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 January 2009, you wrote: > > > >> David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > >> > >>> On Wednesday 14 January 2009, chip wrote: > >>> > > > > > >> Gnarly is an understatement. Those lines of hieroglyphics

Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Fibonacci Prower
Hello, Simply put, I find the default bars in lilypond too thick - whether they be the bars automatically put between beats, or the ones inserted by using \bar "something". Is there any way to make them thinner? -- $0='!/msfQ0yjoV!fe!sfldbi!psup!pmpT'x19xor print+map{("\e[7m \e[0m", chr ord(chop$

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Mats Bengtsson
I hope you refer to what you see on a printed paper copy and not to what you see on the screen using Acrobat reader. As has been discussed on the mailing list, there are some issues with how the bar lines show up on the screen. /Mats Fibonacci Prower wrote: Hello, Simply put, I find the d

loop of sequences

2009-01-16 Thread Thomas Fehr
Gilles Thibault proposed the function \shiftMusic #1 { }. How can I loop through an arbitrary range (for example: #-7 .. #14)? Thanks for any help Thomas ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/li

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Fibonacci Prower
I'm using Evince, not Acrobat reader. Could you please point me to a previous discussion on the subject? 2009/1/16 Mats Bengtsson : > I hope you refer to what you see on a printed paper copy and not to what you > see on > the screen using Acrobat reader. As has been discussed on the mailing list,

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Neil Thornock
What does the hard-copy print-out look like? Here's a start; there are other (and lengthier) discussions as well. http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg15017.html http://www.mail-archive.com/lilypond-user@gnu.org/msg32997.html -- Neil Thornock, D.M. Assistant Professor of Music

Re: converting rests with specified vertical position to common rests

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote: > Well, I don't know an easy way to do it after the conversion. However, I just > added a command-line switch --no-rest-positions (or short --nrp) to > musicxml2ly, which does not convert the exact position of pitched rests and > instead c

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Andrew Hawryluk
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Fibonacci Prower wrote: > I'm using Evince, not Acrobat reader. Evince has a problem with the barlines (it's a bug). On Ubuntu, I work in Evince while I'm writing, but I print the final PDF from Adobe Acrobat. Andrew ___

Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th - Looks like I found the answer

2009-01-16 Thread Chip
I figured it out - without any special trickery or anything else. My piece is arrange as follows, a very truncated version of an 8 horn piece - \include "" \version "" \header {} \paper {} global = {\key g \major and more stuff } \trumpetnotes1 = { a b c d e f g } trptnotes1 = \relative c''' {

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread Johan Vromans
Andrew Hawryluk writes: > Evince has a problem with the barlines (it's a bug). On Ubuntu, I work > in Evince while I'm writing, but I print the final PDF from Adobe > Acrobat. Alternatively, you can just "lpr" the pdf. -- Johan ___ lilypond-user mai

Whole note tremolo repeats - bug ?

2009-01-16 Thread Lasse Rempe
The following lilypond code: c1:16 should (in my opinion) produce a whole note, with the slashes for tremolo repeats inside the staff (see the attached scan). However, lilypond creates something which has the tremolo indication in the ledger lines (see second image). This doesn't look goo

Re: Whole note tremolo repeats - bug ?

2009-01-16 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Lasse, The following lilypond code: c1:16 should (in my opinion) produce a whole note, with the slashes for tremolo repeats inside the staff (see the attached scan). Why should it look like the scan? That is, what engraving reference (e.g., Gardner Read) do you have which indicate

Re: Whole note tremolo repeats - bug ?

2009-01-16 Thread Lasse Rempe
Hi Kieran, Why should it look like the scan? That is, what engraving reference (e.g., Gardner Read) do you have which indicates that the tremolo should be inside the staff? I do not have any engraving reference; however I am going by 20+ years of experience playing music (this sort of thing sh

Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th - Looks like I found the answer

2009-01-16 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/1/16 Chip : > I figured it out - without any special trickery or anything else. Of course, but you do need manual adjustments. > \transpose g d \relative c''' { \transpose d g << \trptnotes2>> } \transpose always does chromatic transposition, ie keeping a fixed interval of the same type of

Re: Arpeggio next to a chord

2009-01-16 Thread Miklos Vajna
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:50:20PM +1100, Brett Duncan wrote: > Add further definitions in chExceptionMusic like this: > > chExceptionMusic = { > 1-\markup {m \super \arpeggioGuitar } > 1-\markup { \super \arpeggioGuitar } > } > > You can add as many chord definitions as you need -

Re: question about transposing an interval of a 4th - Looks like I found the answer

2009-01-16 Thread Chip
Francisco Vila wrote: 2009/1/16 Chip : I figured it out - without any special trickery or anything else. Of course, but you do need manual adjustments. I can live with that. Maybe someday a tool will be written and built into Lily to do the transposition, until then, I'll make the

Re: Whole note tremolo repeats - bug ?

2009-01-16 Thread James E. Bailey
Am 17.01.2009 um 01:08 schrieb Lasse Rempe: Hi Kieran, Why should it look like the scan? That is, what engraving reference (e.g., Gardner Read) do you have which indicates that the tremolo should be inside the staff? I do not have any engraving reference; however I am going by 20+ years o

nwc2ly

2009-01-16 Thread 胡海鹏 - Hu Haipeng
Hello: I found Mike Wiering's "nwc2ly" program on lily's faq page when in 2007. I downloaded the demo of nwc 2.0" which fully functions with minor limitation. I asked the nwc producer whether they'll implement musicxml export, because the nwc scriptorium is the only electronic music repository

Re: Thin bars

2009-01-16 Thread M Watts
Fibonacci Prower wrote: Hello, Simply put, I find the default bars in lilypond too thick I find the "default bars", and other output, exactly the right weight when it's 3 feet away on my music stand! ___ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@

Re: Whole note tremolo repeats - bug ?

2009-01-16 Thread Mark Polesky
Among Gardner Read, Kurt Stone, and Ted Ross, none specifically discuss this. But Lasse's case of putting the tremolo beams within the staff is much easier to defend than anything else. I offer the following argument: 1) all stems in non-polyphonic situations should reach or cross the middle l